Re: PATH revisited: one PATH to "rule the [Debian] World"

2023-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
the special raku that is needed. Anything else sounds like a great foot-gun left lying around for others or myself a week from now. Perl and Python virtual environments typically have a script which sets the path to the interpreter once you enter them, and then everything is self-contained fro

Re: Are people trying to relay mail through my system?

2023-09-25 Thread Andy Smith
set to <6626-879-8427-40-rickm=timshel...@mail.purecuresol.co> which implies they might have sent it TO (an address for you encoded in their envelope sender so they can track bounces), which might be you. Perhaps your system is trying to send a response to a mail you have received. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Sunrise and Sunset from terminal

2023-09-23 Thread Andy Smith
quot;2023-09-24T18:28:49+00:00", "nautical_twilight_begin": "2023-09-24T04:37:02+00:00", "nautical_twilight_end": "2023-09-24T19:08:06+00:00", "astronomical_twilight_begin": "2023-09-24T03:56:14+00:00", "astronomical_twilight_end": "2023-09-24T19:48:54+00:00" }, "status": "OK" } The documentation is here: https://sunrise-sunset.org/api Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [a bit OT] Automate a (G o o g l e) search from a list of strings

2023-09-20 Thread Andy Smith
our netblock to any Google property, which is immensely annoying. I have had to terminate my own customers on multiple occasions over their inability to take this exact issue seriously, because it really upsets OTHER customers when they suddenly need to solve a CAPTCHA to do a search query or loo

Re: Debian Trixie and Anker PowerExpand 6 in 1 k.o.

2023-09-16 Thread Andy Smith
xactly which change made it break for you. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: sata driver compataility Q

2023-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
k out why that happens before spending a lot of money on new hardware. It doesn't seem at all likely to me that your existing hardware is at fault. Buying new hardware risks experiencing the same thing with still no idea why. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: usrmerge on root NFS will not be run automatically

2023-09-15 Thread Andy Smith
ier than the method of taking a copy of it elsewhere then bringing it back. The option of making the usrmerge script work from FreeBSD might not be too technically challenging but I wouldn't want to do it without assistance from the Debian developers responsible for the script. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-07 Thread Andy Smith
with tcpdump that you receive a packet in on your internet interface with source address 192.168.0.2. In summary, I don't think it's OVH. I think it is your ISP or your home router. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-06 Thread Andy Smith
n that no firewall rules exist on your server? # itables -nL and/or # nft list ruleset Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 12 - IPv4 blocked without fail2ban & co

2023-09-06 Thread Andy Smith
place on your server? DO you have access to any other host so you can tell if it is just your home IP that has problems? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: bookworm and network connections

2023-09-01 Thread Andy Smith
ed how to do that, also see the wiki link below), or go with it. Both of these are worth reading: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Bookworm VPS image and cron

2023-08-25 Thread Andy Smith
a minimal debootstrap (debootstrap --variant=minbase bookworm target-dir) of Debian 12 does not include the "cron" package either. It's just a change. Nothing in the base system needs cron any more. I'd regard it as more of a bug if cron got installed without anything that depended upo

Re: is it unusual that 12.1 is released so soon after 12?

2023-08-17 Thread Andy Smith
as you will still never get the desired amount of testing, nor know what that desired level actually is (an unknown unknown). There's more information here: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianReleases/PointReleases Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Bootloader error grub minimal bash "load the kernel first" after installing my live image via calamares installer

2023-08-13 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Sun, Aug 13, 2023 at 06:56:08PM +0530, Sakkra Billa wrote: >when i reboot my VM into the installed environment, it boots into >grub minimal On typing boot it says "load the kernel first". What kind of VM is this? Which provider, if you are unsure. Cheers, Andy -- htt

Re: Swap size in debain 12

2023-08-13 Thread Andy Smith
p files are a good solution when you later decide to do hibernation on a machine that either doesn't have a swap partition or doesn't have one big enough for the task. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: List administrators - request for intervention - was - Re: Mailing list unsubscription requests and identificatio

2023-08-12 Thread Andy Smith
competent at efficiently managing email but still posts as they posted? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-07 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Brian, On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 07:57:07PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Sun 06 Aug 2023 at 20:50:26 -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Sorry you are so offended by a hosts file user Andy, but when the guys > > Did someone mention a hosts file? If I understand correctly, Gene ide

Re: 11 to 12 - fresh install or upgrade

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
re, but I'm not going to spend any time advocating other people do the same. Do what works for you. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
ing Linux, and this thread is not actually finding a person to help now! Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, Aug 06, 2023 at 10:54:27AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 8/5/23 17:47, Andy Smith wrote: > > Do bear in mind that SSDs are not designed for long term unpowered > > data storage, unlike conventional HDDs, so that could be a > > consideration if you're intend

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
. I agree that it belongs at the bottom of documentation and couched with caveats, not handed out as a "just do this". That's very sad to see. And even sadder to see promoted as the "solution". Cheers, Andy > -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: /etc/resolv.conf changes every booting time

2023-08-06 Thread Andy Smith
vial minutiae like "how my network gets set up", leaving a nice rake in the grass for some point in the future when they are trying to debug something else.  And we wonder why this list ends up dealing with the aftermath of the Gene school of "don't understand it? Hit it with chat

Re: Adding backup storage

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
l HDDs, so that could be a consideration if you're intending to use these SSDs stored outside of a computer and unpowered, tape replacement style. Apologies if you knew that already. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 02:01:40PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > On 2023-08-05 13:16, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > > > Part of my standard procedure for setting up new VMs involves > > > e

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:16:57PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 12:53:08PM -0700, Steve Sobol wrote: > > But cron isn't installed. > > Seems unlikely. There are system cron jobs that are not yet > converted to systemd timers. A boo

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:31:13PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:23:19PM +, Michael Kjörling wrote: > > Ditto. That must be some customization your VPS provider has made, if > > the installation didn't somehow fail. > > I don't know why a host

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
ly. Unless as you say, they don't have a working Debian 12. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Bookworm - cron?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
worm install I did just yesterday has cron jobs in /etc/cron.d/ that require the "cron" package. What are you typing to edit root's crontab? What output do you get that you don't expect? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "What should one say afte

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:03:27PM +0100, Joe wrote: > On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 15:09:41 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > For those of us who do care, installing rsyslog takes seconds. > > Disabling the systemd journal (if you want to)_ takes another few > > seconds

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
resources > before an upgrade is highly recommended. The release notes in particular are essential reading since otherwise a person won't know about major components that have changed, been replaced etc. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting "The electric gui

Re: logging no longer standard?

2023-08-05 Thread Andy Smith
except when they consult you? Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Russell, On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 06:23:15PM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 05:29:33PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:07:47AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > For that matter, is RSS still in use? > > >

Re: debian image questions

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
those registries also. What are you actually trying to do? Cheers, Andy ¹ https://ibin.co/7VcgnCUN7wO9.png -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Feeds aren't yet dead (Was: Re: perl module listgarden)

2023-08-03 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Thu, Aug 03, 2023 at 03:07:47AM +, Russell L. Harris wrote: > For that matter, is RSS still in use? $ r2e list | wc -l 72 Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: chrome web browser worthless

2023-08-02 Thread Andy Smith
ere this is overwhelmingly more likely to be user error than anything else. On top of that you're talking about non-Debian software on a non-Debian OS, so how about taking these ridiculous outbursts to a non-Debian forum? Like you've already been asked to do. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonse

Creality don't sound great (Was: Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?)

2023-07-30 Thread Andy Smith
onents, this on a device that is designed to allow people to make things Sounds like an absolutely shit-tier company. I hope there are alternatives in the 3d-printing world, a world that I know almost nothing about. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Is it possible to downgrade openssl?

2023-07-29 Thread Andy Smith
ink it's unlikely that your AppImage is using the system openssl anyway. You really need to get support from the supplier of the package. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 11 installer crashed and reboot (in Xen DomU)

2023-07-27 Thread Andy Smith
reading somewhere that this is controversial. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: General Questions

2023-07-25 Thread Andy Smith
ussian will be easier? https://lists.debian.org/debian-russian/ I only guessed at Russian, so sorry if I misidentified your antive language. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: apt upgrade in buster is confused

2023-07-24 Thread Andy Smith
ble/amd64/release-notes/ch-upgrading.en.html because if you have, then I do not understand why you aren't following the documented steps, which are in part: # apt update # apt upgrade --without-new-pkgs # apt full-upgrade Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How could a standalone python binary executable be made from a python script, to be run on other computers that don't have python installed?

2023-07-24 Thread Andy Smith
to believe me on that, either. Oh well. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: dpkg: error processing package mysql-client

2023-07-20 Thread Andy Smith
read those before any upgrade. https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/releasenotes https://www.debian.org/releases/bullseye/releasenotes (not sure which release OP is upgrading to; 11 (bullseye) maybe.) Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How could a standalone python binary executable be made from a python script, to be run on other computers that don't have python installed?

2023-07-20 Thread Andy Smith
list subscribers, like you and I? Why even send email to all of us if you only want to address list maintainers? Their address is listmas...@lists.debian.org, but they don't answer general user support queries. Not even the "senior" ones. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: I reinstalled debian bullsee and still have the same messages andthis one too

2023-07-16 Thread Andy Smith
ll command. $ apt-file search xdg-desktop-portal.service xdg-desktop-portal: /usr/lib/systemd/user/xdg-desktop-portal.service I have no input on whether that is the source of the OP's error message however. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: [OT] IBM, Oracle, SUSE: RHEL

2023-07-15 Thread Andy Smith
lot of pointless interaction. Congrats. Was that the goal? Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: why is os-prober disabled by default

2023-07-14 Thread Andy Smith
cfg file in /etc/default/grub.d/. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Synaptic Problem

2023-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
n I entered an unspecified query about it on Google." That's what you gave us. Come on, man. No one should have to be saying this. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Corrupt root filesystem

2023-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
nterested in getting advice then I recommend that you start giving more information such as what actual messages you see, what exactly you did, how you did it and what result you got when you did. Regards, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Corrupt root filesystem

2023-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
ent and running fsck -n first to see what it will do, before running a real fsck. Also have backups. Most likely thing is that fixes it and you have no further problems. If it keeps happening to you, however, then this will need more investigation. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Bye Bye [preauth]

2023-07-05 Thread Andy Smith
t setting, and also things like Fail2Ban, firewall rate limiting of connections (TCP SYN) or maybe even VPN technology. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: How do I remotely access the computer in the next room?

2023-07-02 Thread Andy Smith
ever mail program I liked locally without fear of affecting the other machine or the pristine copy of its email. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Issue with Xen PCI passthrough ("swiotlb buffer is full") after Debian Dom0 kernel update to 5.10.178-3 and later

2023-06-29 Thread Andy Smith
just run an upstream kernel) until the patch makes its way into an upstream stable kernel. Once that has happened, the Debian kernel team will usually be open to taking it (on request) for the next point release. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Issue with Xen PCI passthrough ("swiotlb buffer is full") after Debian Dom0 kernel update to 5.10.178-3 and later

2023-06-28 Thread Andy Smith
:4096M …" and see if that helps at all? (as far as I understand, the ,max: bit tells the dom0 kernel that it may have that much memory at some point, without actually allocating it) If that doesn't help, I am out of ideas, and again recommend xen-devel. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: php 7.4 and bookworm

2023-06-28 Thread Andy Smith
nce of upstream PHP providing that, are probably the best you'll get. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Hddtemp in Bookworm

2023-06-27 Thread Andy Smith
ase notes for bookworm with a proposed text citing alternatives to hddtemp. I have in the past managed to get things added to release notes post release in this way. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong

2023-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
about removing systemd! Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: OT: Forwarding and top posting (was: Re: OT: Pedantic, yet wrong)

2023-06-23 Thread Andy Smith
me. I would have done the same as the OP without thinking anything of it. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Desktop environments stealing app key shortcuts (Was Re: package managers problem)

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
er the desktop environment key shortcuts? There a few GNOME ones I have to disable myself, due to using various F-keys for other apps. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hi David, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 04:53:06PM +0100, David Wright wrote: > On Wed 21 Jun 2023 at 12:31:20 (+), Andy Smith wrote: > > feature rich editors like vim and emacs can easily write to files > > through sudo or sftp, thus enabling seamless editing of files as >

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 03:50:31PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 6/20/23 18:23, Andy Smith wrote: > > I think it's already been demonstrated in this thread that the > > desktop launcher for Synaptic calls policykit to start it, so if as > > you claim you do a st

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
lem being that launching Synaptic asked for your password but then the dialog went away without appearing to actually launch Synaptic? Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Code of conduct reminder.

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
good to salvage at least a bug report out of it. I'm not sure we can actually get there though. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Code of conduct reminder.

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
w, not all persons of authority are cut out for this kind of thing either! I think Debian's community team do a pretty good job when they do actually get involved, I just wish they could get involved more. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 09:23:41AM -0400, Maurice Heskett wrote: > On 6/21/23 08:33, Andy Smith wrote: > > I'm sure there are other advanced editors that can do the same. > > Maybe geany can; I'm not familiar with it. > You are missing out on one of linux's better codi

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
really worth spending the time to learn how to do this sort of thing in one of the advanced editors. For a quick workaround though, and for Gene's case, sure. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-21 Thread Andy Smith
a console login and su, but not the display manager login. It just seems so futile though, since every step taken seems to make your situation worse. I highly doubt that Wayland has anything to do with any of the problems you describe in this thread. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
of that would have been a sensible way to go, without this nonsense of trying to start GUI apps with sudo or directly as root, and then blaming the Wayland that lives under your bed. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Gene, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 05:44:10PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. […] > Andy, if you aren't behind dd-wrt for your home network, don't pretend to > tell me what I can't do I think your contributions to

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 20:39:35 + > Andy Smith wrote: > > Please do not encourage Gene's fetish of running GUI apps as root. > > Plenty of people have been wasting their time trying to tell

Re: package managers problem

2023-06-20 Thread Andy Smith
and the last thing they need is bystanders handing him a different bore of firearm to aim at his foot. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Why are there multiple ways to do things in Debian? (Was Re: package managers problem)

2023-06-17 Thread Andy Smith
evidence that enough people have strong and conflicting feelings about how they should work, that the authors persist. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Why are there multiple ways to do things in Debian? (Was Re: package managers problem)

2023-06-17 Thread Andy Smith
Synaptic? Is it > planned? If not, why not? You are very willing to tell volunteers what to spend their time working on, I see. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Apache logs and systemd

2023-06-16 Thread Andy Smith
That file should show the paths to your apache2 log files. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Apache logs and systemd

2023-06-15 Thread Andy Smith
ual. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian home page -> Download link broken:

2023-06-11 Thread Andy Smith
f you can articulate where the release notes fell short for you, I think that belongs in a bug report on the release notes, too, as they are supposed to stand alone. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: PTR record for mail server

2023-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
net". Do also set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC. After all that you'll probably still have some issues. Try the "mailop" mailing list for advice on deliverability issues but I warn you now: the first advice from 90% of respondents there will be to stop sending email from OVH IP addresses.

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
rd. Most of the time with most packages it's obvious, but I have seen some weird things from time to time! KVM is such a big package that I shy away from just advising --no-install-recommends to those inexperienced with it. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
any X-Window or desktop environment in its entire life, > > > tries to install qemu-system-gui, adwaita-icon-theme, libgtk-3-common > > > and a lot of similar stuff. > > > > Even with `--no-install-recommends`? > > qemu-system-x86 package _recommends_ qemu-

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-02 Thread Andy Smith
of packages that I would never use, use virsh to manage the VMs from command line, and perhaps over time worm out which packages can be safely removed. The Debian wiki page for KVM does cover use of "virsh" from the command line, as well as GUI things like virt-manager. https://wiki.debian.org/KVM Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
match for you, and you may be better off going with Gentoo or Arch or something. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: A hypervisor for a headless server?

2023-06-01 Thread Andy Smith
both kvm and Xen in the way you describe. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: netmask question

2023-05-26 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Fri, May 26, 2023 at 09:07:23PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Sat, May 27, 2023 at 12:59:59AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 08:26:47PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > No. What's the netmask if you have: > > > > > >

Re: netmask question

2023-05-26 Thread Andy Smith
o useful reason. It could be done with any other valid network and would waste more and more IPs the bigger the network is, but it would still work. There is still some legacy equipment that doesn't support /31s on networks with only two devices despite RFC 3021 being more than 20 years old now. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-15 Thread Andy Smith
t for net-tools being retained in a lot of cases. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Debian 9 stretch - ebtables package

2023-05-15 Thread Andy Smith
rces.list you will certainly find ebtables packages for stretch. You can also find every version of ebtables that has been in Debian, on snapshot.debian.org: http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/ebtables/ Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-15 Thread Andy Smith
s on net-tools. Even though I don't use cloud-init. I see that in bookworm cloud-init no longer depends upon net-tools, so there's another route to install gone. I'm sure there's still a lot of cases where it's pulled in as a possible dependency but never knowingly used. Cheers, Andy -- https://

Re: iptables reject with TCP RST

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
ide? You could also try --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable to see if that behaves differently. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: iptables reject with TCP RST

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
ules the packets match? They are clearly matching some other earlier rule, and I suggested that in the email you have replied to for the exact purpose of checking that out. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Gene's avahi bogeyman is not real (Was Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network)

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
ny people trying over a period of years. When you see a post from Gene mentioning liberal use of "rm" and "chattr +i" on parts of the operating system, do begin to question what you are reading. Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
config behave the way FreeBSD ifconfig does is presumably not an option on the table since clearly no one wants to do that work, and anyway possibly there are yet some other platforms that have an ifconfig that behaves differently again.) Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Sun, May 14, 2023 at 01:41:40PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 5/14/23 12:09, Andy Smith wrote: > > the arguments for its continued usage are extremely tenuous and > > basically boil down to, "it's always worked for me!" Which is > > fine, but does lead t

Re: iptables reject with TCP RST

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
but this seems to be blocked one hop after 213.200.112.170: $ sudo tcptraceroute 193.106.250.1 587 [sudo] password for andy: Selected device eth0, address 85.119.80.223, port 48267 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to 193.106.250.1 on TCP port 587 (submission), 30 hops max 1 limoncello.bitfolk.c

Re: shell script run in backend

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
ervice and tell App::Daemon to run it foreground (so that systemd takes care of backgrounding it). Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
lways be the command to use, and then gave up without doing any further research, Elsewhere in this thread copious links to documentation from Red Hat and Arch were posted, to which the old guard say, "don't believe everything you read on the web". Live in the 20th century if you

Re: how to find out regdomain/country of wifi network

2023-05-14 Thread Andy Smith
that ifconfig is no longer the thing to use, continued to try to use it. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: Stable and testing together?

2023-05-13 Thread Andy Smith
uot;testing" are expected to be able to diagnose and handle. Adding oldstable in the mix as well just makes that problem worse. But if it works for you, great! When it stops working you will get to keep both pieces.  Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting Pleas

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-09 Thread Andy Smith
Hello, On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 05:40:18AM +0200, zithro wrote: > In short, zero time taken. For a comparatively large response. Almost as if that was their goal (trolling)! Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting > I'd be interested to hear any (even two word) r

Re: relevance of packages in repositories

2023-05-07 Thread Andy Smith
t secret too.  Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: processing /etc/sysctl.d

2023-05-04 Thread Andy Smith
is changing this sysctl to 0 because your default is 1, so these interfaces will be created with it as 1. All that would happen if you made systemd change it as well is that you'd have *another* race condition. Needs to be fixed in the NM config IMHO. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

Re: processing /etc/sysctl.d

2023-05-04 Thread Andy Smith
last time or if it just gets the "default" ones all over again. I suspect the latter. So yeah, multiple reasons to not try setting per-interface sysctls in sysctl.d. Cheers, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting

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